New Yorkers dissatisfied with public schools, survey says

As the New Covenant Charter School in Albany opens, a survey by the Siena College Research Institute in Loudonville reports that nearly two-thirds of all New Yorkers are dissatisfied with the public school system. But 58 percent also are opposed to having charter schools financed by taxpayers. The same proportion of the 638 people surveyed are against the public funding of schools run by religious groups.